[Zope] newbie: ZTP, SQL, plone

[andrew cooke]

arrgh - so simple!  great, thanks.  i'm off home now, but will try that
first thing tomorrow.  thanks again, andrew

Ian Bicking said:
> On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 03:34 PM, andrew cooke wrote:
>> but how do i get that data displayed in the ZTP page?  i have a page in
>> the /timesheets/ztp folder (also called "list_people") with the
>> following
>> text, but it won't compile:
>>
>>     <ul tal:repeat="item /timesheets/sql/list_people">
>>      <li tal:content="item/person">name</li>
>>     </ul>
>>
>> the error message is: Compilation failed
>> TAL.TALDefs.TALError: Invalid variable name "" in expression
>> '/timesheets/sql/list_people'
>
> Just timesheets/sql/list_people -- no leading "/".  You can get to the
> content of parent folders by acquisition.  Or I believe there is a root
> object (not sure), so root/timesheets/sql/list_people
>
> You get the Invalid variable name "" because it never expects a leading
> "/", and it assumes there is a variable before the slash (which would
> have to be the empty string).  Not the best error message, I guess...
>
> --
> Ian Bicking | ianb at colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org
>
>


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